A Structural Diagnosis and Prescription for Detroit’s Fiscal Crisis: Response to William Tabb’s ‘If Detroit Is Dead, Some Things Need to Be Said at the Funeral’

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George Galster

George Galster is the Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs at Wayne State University. Galster has held positions at the Universities of: Harvard, Berkeley, North Carolina, Amsterdam, Delft, Glasgow, Mannheim, Oslo, and Western Sydney, among others. He served as Director of Housing Research at the Urban Institute before coming to Wayne State University in 1996. His research has focused on urban neighborhoods and housing markets, exploring how they change and how they change the people who live within them. This has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed articles, 30 book chapters and seven books. His latest book is Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City (2012). He has provided housing policy consultations to public officials in Australia, Canada, China, Scotland, and the U.S. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.